All violence towards others, or any attack upon oneself, is nothing more than one's own unconscious imperfection trying, in vain, to keep itself out of sight.

Thoughts and emotions are actually things independent of the person who believes that he or she is responsible for their actions. You live in an invisible sea of thoughts and feelings and emotions all of which are a product of a system that is constantly recirculating itself.

Imagine how much stress, fear, doubt, and sorrow we would live without were we only content enough within ourselves to enjoy our own company.

Topics covered:  Within each moment is that which understands the purpose of its creation; The purpose of real contemplation is to give an individual, according to their willingness, an ephiany, which is a simultaneous glimpse of the opposites, revealing a wholeness that is greater than the sum of its parts; Desperation is born of feeling oneself as separate and apart from life.

Interview with Dr. Alvin Jones of The Business of Wisdom on 10/5/11. Topics covered: The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred are three distinct phases of one single action in each person's life; Nothing we can acquire for ourselves satisfies our innate need to be whole; The person who seeks to be in alignment with what's higher has a lot less fear in their life; We've lost contact with the celestia...

Topics covered: The mind is forever trying to find a way to escape from the prison that it is constructing; Is there any other way to respond to a negative reaction other than to identify with, and then act out its choices... only to react again to the inescapable result of the choice we have made, and in whose promise we've become identified? What if its choices are not ours?; We go into thought in order to get out of the unwanted condition, when thinking itself IS the condition.

Will you speak more about how resistance can be our ally to make peace with what is incomplete? How we can remain open when we feel attacked in that moment, not later when the light goes on and I hit my forehead, seeing the test to see if I learned to be open?

The reconciliation of opposing forces can only be realized through the unification of desire, which is its transfiguration.

Peace of mind is not some “place” we can rush to; fulness of heart is not a possession to be claimed. We can only realize that these Divine gifts -- of a quiet mind and overflowing heart -- have already been given to us: an interior discovery which may prove to be the most difficult thing we will ever agree to do in this life.

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2024 - As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!

Part 1 Whenever we act from an incomplete understanding of the moment, the action we take must be equally incomplete. So, enact what we may in this way to resolve what disturbs us, we can never realize the peace we seek because -- by their nature -- incomplete actions always create incomplete results. Part 2 If you won't let love touch you, it can't help heal you.

Until the peace and pleasure found within you is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself -- then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.